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JOHN HART, Esq; Governor.
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1716. |
Pounds of Tobacco per Day, and the Delegates and Burgesses of Assembly
shall be allowed the Sum of One Hundred and Forty Pounds of Tobacco
per
Day, during the Time they shall attend such Assemblies. and no more,
(besides
their itinerant Charges,) to be paid and allowed them out of the Public
Levy of this Province: And the several and respective Commissioners
of the
Provincial Court, for the defraying their Charges and Expences, during
the
Time they shall sit in and attend such Courts, the Sum of One Hundred
and
Forty Pounds Tobacco per Day, and no more, besides their itinerant
Charges,
to be paid them likewise out of the Public Levy of this Province as
aforesaid.
And the several Commissioners of the County Courts shall be allowed,
for the defraying their Expences, during the Time they shall sit and
attend such Court as aforesaid, the Sum of Eighty Pounds Tobacco per
Day, and no more, which Sum of Eighty Pounds of Tobacco as aforesaid,
the Commissioners of the County Courts are hereby impowered to assess
and
levy on the taxable Persons of the several COunties where such Commissioners
shall serve as aforesaid, for the defraying the Expences aforesaid,
and
no more.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
CHAP.
XI.
To Members
of the Lower
House 140 lb
Tobacco per
Day, besides
itinerant
Charges.
To Provincial
Justices 140
lb per Day
and itinerant
Charges.
To Justices of
the County
Courts 80 lb
Tobacco per
Day. |
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CHAP. XII.
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An Act for the Relief of Peter Sewell, a languishing Prisoner
in Calvert County.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 325.
PR. |
Passed 10th
August 1716. |
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CHAP. XIII.
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An Act impowering the surviving Executor of the Last Will and Testament
of
Robert Smith, Esq, late of Talbot
County, deceased, to sell Lands for the Payment
of his Debts, and to make over other Lands, according
to the Deceased's
Will, which were sold by the Deceased, but never
made over by him. Lib. LL
Nº 4. fol. 329. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XIV.
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An Act for Continuance of the Process within this Province on the
Charge of the
Government from the Crown to the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary;
and for the Adjournment of several County Courts
from
August 1716. Lib.
LL. Nº 4. fol. 332. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XV.
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An Act for confirming Three small Tracts of Land, lying in Ann-Arundel
County, to Susannah Johnson, her Heirs
and Assigns for ever. Lib. LL. N º
4. fol. 333. PR. |
Ditto. |
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CHAP. XVI.
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An ACT to restrain the ill Practices used by Sheriffs in taking
Goods by Fieri Facias, and selling them by
Venditioni exponas.
Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol. 335. |
Ditto. |
WHEREAS many of the good People of this Province have of late
been greatly damnified and abused in their Estates by Sheriffs,
who upon Receipt of any Fieri Facias, or Attachment issued out
of the Courts of this Province, take, by virtue of such Writs, great
Quantities
of Goods, more than will satisfy the Debt, Damages and Costs in such
Writs mentioned, and keep them a long Time in their Custody, under
Pretence
of Want of Buyers, whereupon it often happens upon the Return of the
said Sheriffs, that Writs of Venditioni exponas are issued,
commanding them to
put the said Goods to Sale, which for the most Part hath been done
privately,
and Goods of great Value have not been sold for the Tenth Part of their
Value,
to the great Loss of both the Debtor and Creditor, and to the Ruin
of
some Families; for the Prevention whereof for the future, and to ascertain
a Way and Method whereby the Sheriffs of this Province may securely
act in
Writs of the like Nature, more to the Benefit and Advantage of both
Debtor
and Creditor; |
Preamble. |
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